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Marvin S. Antelman to Eliminate the Opiate Vol 1 TO ELIMINATE — OPIATE aaah Read about... Jacob Frank, to whom sin was holy. Adam Weishaupt. the Jesuit priest who founded the Iluminati on May Day 1776, from which the Communist Party emerged. How Weishaupt's Iluminati and Frank's Frankists worked hand in hand to destroy religions and governments. The connection between the Frankists. Illuminati, Jacobins and the French Revolution that changed society. Why Jewish-born Karl Marx was an anti-Semite and wrote A World Without Jews. The 18th Century roots of the Women's Liberation movement. How the Illuminati founded artificial Judaism. Why the Frankists provided the leadership for the Reform and Conservative movements. How Judaism was labeled iOrthodoxi in order to destroy it. How the Lubaviteher Rebbe foiled a mass assimilation conspiracy in Russia. The plot to destroy the Torah through the field of Biblical criticism. Why today’s Reform clerics gravitate to Communism, Communist causes, and support Black anti-Semitic groups Why the wealthy financed Communist revolutions. Why Black civic leader Elma Lewis sued the author for a half million dollars and Lost. The true sources for the Frankenstein Monster. The significance of mystical designs on the American dollar bill. TO ELIMINATE THE OPIATE VOLUME | By Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman IN MEMORIAM This book is dedicated to the memory of members of my family who perished in the Holocaust of the National Socialist Party of Germany, during World War Il. They met their death in the environs of Sokoran, in the province of Bessarabia, Rumania. Their names are as follows: My grandfather, Alexander Ze'ev Zisi Antelman My grandmother, Golda Antelman My uncle, Baruch Antelman My aunt, Sima Antelman Their 8-year-old daughter, my cousin, Rivka Antelman My aunt, Rivka (Antelman) Groberman My uncle, Mayer Groberman Their 13-year-old son, my cousin, Moshe Groberman Their 17-year-old daughter, my cousin, Rachel Groberman My 2-year-old cousin, Hadassah Antelman And a total of 60 of my cousins' uncles, aunts, cousins and grandparents. MAY THE LORD AVENGE THEIR BLOOD. ACKNOWLEDGMENT | wish to thank the Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia, Pa. for permission to reproduce one of Abraham Geiger's letters to Lillienthal that appeared in Max Weiner's Abraham Geiger and Liberal Judaism, Copyright 1962, as well as a sermon from the same book (abbrev. WG). There are also a number of people whom | would like to thank for their most generous help to me in gathering information for the preparation of this book. | am particularly indebted to Mrs. Maryland Estes of the Beth El Library in Providence for obtaining some rare books and manuscripts and for her constant assistance in locating various sources. Thanks are also due to my student, Rabbi Yitzchak Dubovick of Providence for obtaining special information on the Chasidim in Russia during the 19th century. Miss Edith Kermit Roosevelt of Washington, the granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, has given me much information on the subversive activities of the Cult of the All-Seeing Eye and some interesting connections between them and the American Jewish Congress, for which | am most indebted. Also | am grateful to Gordon Hall of Boston for making available some in- formation in his files on subversives for my perusal. For their help and suggestions | am grateful to my father, A. Harry Antelman and my mother, Anna Antelman of Atlantic City, New Jersey; also to Irwin Katz, Regional Coordinator of the New England JSL and Allan E. Mallenbaum, National Chairman of JSL. And most important of all to my wife, Sylvia, who also designed the cover of this book and without whose patience and forbearance, this book would have been an impossibility. MSA. PREFACE In preparing this volume, | have had to weigh much historical information and have even had to rewrite some information when | found contradictory material that could be better substantiated. Anyone who can correct any particular information here that he believes to be erroneous is asked to please call it to my attention. Our understanding of history increases day by day as new documentary material is constantly being unearthed that sheds new light or even dis- credits previous historical sources. This is especially true when one discovers, as | have, that there seems to be a concerted attempt to bury in the shadows of history many mysterious connections and events. If, dear reader, you should be distressed or frightened when reading this volume, you should not be, because the conspiracy to destroy the Jewish religion is completely undermined in your act of reading this book. The conspiracy depends on being able to hide its inner workings. But having read this book, you will be that much more enlightened. This is what the Torah means by the admonition, "Do not conceal (Deuteronomy 13:10)." When it comes to those who seduce people to worship strange gods, that one should not conceal their actions. At the end of Volume II, God willing, | shall present a comprehensive platform on how one can deal with this conspiracy. While this book primarily addresses itself to the Jewish experience, | have endeavored to write it for non-Jews as well, so that they could better appreciate how the Jew is being falsely presented to them as a left-winger, radical Communist, or capitalistic conspirator, and begin to realize who the real conspirators are and who really represents World Jewry today. Most non-Jews, as members of daughter religions of Judaism, through this book may be able to appreciate how an attack on Judaism affects their lives. | have quoted liberally from many authorities such as Professor Gershom Scholem, Dr. Arthur Hertzberg, Max Dimont, and others. However, let the reader not think that by doing so, the author accepts many of those that he has quoted as authorities in all matters, for Gershom Scholem is an agnostic; Professor Jacob Katz, who has written Jews in Freemasonry, subscribes to Biblical criticism; Max Dimont's writings reveal antagonism towards religious Jews; and Arthur Hertzberg in his role as president of the American Jewish Congress, has been involved in an attempt to undermine the Jewish religious school system in the United States, and has attacked the Israeli Rabbinate on the issue of Jewish identity. In selecting the title of this book, Karl Marx's concept that religion must be eliminated has been incorporated. The full text of his remarks was written in German and was as follows: “Religion is the lament of the oppressed, the soul of a world that has no soul, the hope of a humanity which has lost all hope; it is the opiate of the people." This has been reduced in quotations books to "Religion is the opiate of the people." Some translate "opium" rather than opiate, but this is a poor translation of the original German. Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman 24 Nisan 5734; April 16, 1974 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .... PART |. THE RISE OF PHONY JUDAISMS Chapter |. To Eliminate The Opiate I The New Order...... Ml. The Bund Der Gerechte! V. Birth of The Orthodox Nigge! v. The Bunds Ill Fated Russian Campaign... M. The Fall of Abraham Geiger .. VII. The Reinstatement of Abraham Geiger .... PART Il. THE ACTIVITIES OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY REVOLUTIONARY SOCIETIES Chapter Vill. — The Illuminati and Haskala.... IX. Mendelssohn's Assimilationist Heresies . X. Dobrushka, The Red Kabbala and The Jacobins . XI. The Frankist Elite XI. The Birth of Biblical Criticism EPILOGUE ... ABBREVIATIONS TO NOTES NOTE: INDEX INTRODUCTION If a Jewish house on 122 Callender Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts, were not firebombed on the evening of July 11, 1971, then this book would never have been written. It is because this house was firebombed that the author, as National Coordinator of the Jewish Survival Legion (JSL), also called Irgun USA, was sued by Elma Lewis, a militant Black leader in the Boston area. The letter shown here, was sent by her lawyer, Lawrence Shubow. Lawrence Shubow and his former partner, Stephen Morse, were American Jewish Congress lawyers. Furthermore, Stephen Morse was officially the assistant to the director of Boston's Jewish Community Council. Shubows name is mentioned in U. S. Senate hearings in conjunction with Communist activities. He is currently Vice President of the New England Region of the American Jewish Congress. xi ALLEN, HEMINGWAY, MORSE & SHUBOW Attomeys at Law 16 Court Square Boston, Massachusetts 02108 ASA S.ALLEN, 1865-1959. OLIVER S. ALLEN, 1910-1969 HERMAN W. HEMINGWAY STEPHEN R. MORSE LAWRENCE D. SHUBOW MORRIS S. SHUBOW July 29, 1971 Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman 618 Little Building Boston, Mass. 02116 Dear Rabbi Antelman: | have just been presented with a three-page statement attributed to the Jewish Survival Legion and issued under your name which so irresponsibly and falsely libels and damages Miss Elma Lewis and the programs in which she is involved as to make immediate legal action unavoidable. | have been retained to bring a $500,000 suit against the responsible parties. Before filing the suit | wanted to be absolutely certain that, insofar as you are concerned, the document the "Jewish Persecution in Mattapan/Dorchester was, in fact issued by you or with your authonty or by your organization. Frankly, the possibility occurred to me that it was crude forgery; it reeks of such malice and misrepresentation If | do not hear from you in due course, | will assume you and your associates do accept responsibility for the document and are ready to accept any consequences that may arise from its publication. Yours very truly, LAWRENCE D. SHUBOW LDS:cls CC: Elma Lewis xii The circumstances of the lawsuit had to do with statements made by the JSL concerning Elma Lewis's role in the destruction of Boston's Jewish community during the years 1968 to 1971.
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